Ethanol proponents urge Canada to raise renewable-fuel levels for gasoline

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Faced with an uncertain future in the U.S., ethanol proponents have mounted a public push north of the border, urging Canada to raise its own renewable-fuel levels for gasoline. Environment and Climate Change Canada, the nation’s top environmental agency, is in the process of developing a new “Clean Fuel Standard,” a broad set of new […]

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May 9, 2017 at 09:44AM

Nuclear Power ‘Is Thriving Overseas’ But Collapsing In The US

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The U.S. is building five times fewer new nuclear reactors than China, according to new data published Sunday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). China is building 20 new nuclear reactors while South Korea alone has five more under construction. Meanwhile, only six new nuclear reactors are being built in Western Europe, while just four are under […]

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May 9, 2017 at 09:44AM

Incompetence or Fraud in Alaska?

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By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Patsy Lacey

 

Alaska’s soils are taking far longer to freeze over as winter approaches than in previous decades, resulting in a surge in carbon dioxide emissions that could portend a much faster rate of global warming than scientists had previously estimated, according to new research.

Measurements of carbon dioxide levels taken from aircraft, satellites and on the ground show that the amount of CO2 emitted from Alaska’s frigid northern tundra increased by 70% between 1975 and 2015, in the period between October and December each year.

Researchers said warming temperatures and thawing soils were the likely cause of the increase in CO2 at a time of year when the upper layers of soil usually start freezing over as winter sets in.

In the Arctic summer, the upper level of soil, which sits above a vast sheet of permafrost that covers much of Alaska, thaws out and decomposing organic matter starts to produce CO2. From October, colder temperatures help freeze the soil again, locking up the CO2.

Alaska’s warming autumns and winters are altering this process. Whereas soils 40 years ago took about a month to completely freeze over, the process can now take three months or longer. In some places in the state, the soil is not freezing until January, particularly if there is a layer of insulating snow.

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Autumn temperatures in Alaska have certainly increased since 1975.

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But this is due to the switch in the PDO in the late 1970s, which brought warm water up from the Pacific.

Any half competent climatologist knows all about this.

 

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But it is also apparent that recent Alaskan temperatures are similar to those in the 1930s to 50s, when the PDO was, as now, in warm phase.

 

So why do these junk scientists not tell us the truth?

Is it because they are simply incompetent?

Or is it deliberate fraud?

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May 9, 2017 at 09:39AM

Al Gore wants to reverse modernity – Video

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Gore’s anti-humanity proposals would send us back into the Dark Ages.

(Excerpts) – Al Gore wants to reverse modernity and save the world from itself, setting forth on a fool’s-errand pathway to “decarbonize” the world’s energy system.

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Gore is recommending a massive, punishing carbon tax, essentially destroying development of the world’s fossil-fuel base. Our economic growth and personal well-being depends on robust fossil-fuel use, so Gore’s plan would destroy these as well.

The anti-humanity proposals in Gore’s latest initiative have as one of their chief goals the elimination of fossil fuels, full stop.

But, don’t worry! The all-in estimated cost to re-engineer humanity is only a mere $15 trillion—enough money to give every man, woman, and child in the United States more than $46,000.

Never mind that carbon dioxide is a benign gas required for all life to thrive on Earth—plant, animal, and human alike. It has never mattered to Gore that ordinary people everywhere have been hurt and will continue to be hurt by his continual efforts to make fossil-fuel energy expensive and that the poorest among us are harmed the most by the energy policies he supports.

Gore remains as tragically wrong today as he was when he first surfaced as an opponent of everything linked to carbon-dioxide.

His $15 trillion carbon tax should and will be rejected for the phony, radical environmental vision it represents.

See entire article by Fred Palmer:
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Thanks to Dean Koehler for this link

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May 9, 2017 at 08:58AM